Brief Life History of Thomas William
When Thomas William Buchanan was born on 1 March 1858, in Green, Kentucky, United States, his father, James Scott Buchanan, was 26 and his mother, Mariah Louisa Smoot, was 18. He married Elizabeth "Betty" COWHERD on 6 May 1886, in Shelby, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Campbellsville, Taylor, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 5, Taylor, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 7 April 1940, in Taylor, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Campbellsville, Taylor, Kentucky, United States.
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- Thomas W Buchanan, "United States Census, 1930"
- Thomas William Buchanon, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
- Thomas W Buchanan, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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